Understanding the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Achievement Motivation in Gifted College Students

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Perfectionism in High-Ability Students: Relational Precursors and Influences on Achievement Motivation (2006, background): “In particular, researchers in gifted education have been interested in examining perfectionism due to its influence on the psychological well-being of high-ability students and on their academic achievement (Kline & Short, 1991; Roberts & Lovett, 1984; Schuler, 2000; Speirs Neumeister, 2004a).”
Cognitive Links Between Fear Of Failure And Perfectionism (2007, background): “Bacharach, 1997). Neumeister (2004) found that SOP was positively associated with appetitive achievement motivation at the level of both goals and motives (i.e., need for achievement – the approach-oriented achievement motive based on anticipatory pride upon succeeding; McClelland, Atkinson, Clark”
Perfectionism and Motivation of Adolescents in Academic Contexts. (2014, background): “…consistently across the two subject domains—test anxiety, academic procrastination, a performance-approach goal, and a performance-avoidance goal—as well as the socially prescribed perfectionism itself, are correlates of fear of failure (Elliot & Church, 1997; Speirs Neumeister, 2004; Steel, 2007).”